A New Political Situation in Latin America: What Lies Ahead?
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1205 .... January 5, 2016
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A New Political Situation in Latin America: What Lies Ahead?
Interview with Claudio Katz
Two recent events -- the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina's presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable, winning two thirds of the seats in Venezuela's National Assembly elections -- have radically altered the political map in South America. In the following interview, Argentine Marxist Claudio Katz discusses what these setbacks for the left mean for the progressive "process of change" that has unfolded on the continent over the last 10-15 years. My translation from the Spanish.
Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires, a researcher with the National Council of Science and... Technology, and a member of Economists of the Left.
This interview with La Llamarada occurred just before the outgoing National Assembly in Venezuela called the first meeting of the "National Communal Parliament," a new legislative structure of delegates from the country's more than 1,400 communes, the grassroots bodies in rural and urban communities throughout Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro was quoted as saying "I'm going to give all the power to the communal parliament.... This parliament is going to be a legislative mechanism from the grassroots. All power to the Communal parliament."
— Richard Fidler.
